The Norton Reader

by Beaty, Jerome; Brereton, John C.; Hartman, Joan; Peterson, Linda H.

• ISBN13: 9780393973839
• ISBN10: 0393973832
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Index of Rhetorical Modes	xiii
Preface	xix
To Students: Reading and Writing with the Norton Reader	xxiii
PERSONAL REPORT
Graduation	1	(9)
Maya Angelou
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	10	(3)
Zora Neale Hurston
A Victim	13	(2)
Bruno Bettelheim
One Violent Crime	15	(5)
Bruce Shapiro
The Town Dump	20	(5)
Wallace Stegner
On Dumpster Diving	25	(9)
Lars Eighner
On Being a Cripple	34	(10)
Nancy Mairs
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	44	(6)
Alice Walker
On Going Home	50	(2)
Joan Didion
On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst	52	(10)
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Waiting	62	(4)
Edna O'Brien
The Brown Wasps	66	(6)
Loren Eiseley
The Guardian Angel	72	(2)
Gary Soto
Once More to the Lake	74	(6)
E. B. White
PROSE FORMS: JOURNALS	80	(322)
On Keeping a Notebook	82	(5)
Joan Didion
from Journal	87	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journal	90	(2)
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln	92	(2)
Walt Whitman
A Visit to Grosse Isle	94	(4)
Susanna Moodie
from Journal of a Solitude	98	(6)
May Sarton
Selections from the Allen Notebooks	104	(3)
Woody Allen
PEOPLE, PLACES
George Washington	107	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln	110	(3)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yeager	113	(10)
Tom Wolfe
The Case of Harry Houdini	123	(11)
Daniel Mark Epstein
My Father: Leslie Stephen	134	(4)
Virginia Woolf
Under the Influence	138	(11)
Scott Russell Sanders
Terwilliger Bunts One	149	(5)
Annie Dillard
For My American Family: A Belated Tribute to a Legacy of Gifted Intelligence and Guts	154	(4)
June Jordan
More Room	158	(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
True North	162	(10)
Margaret Atwood
The Holy Use of Gossip	172	(5)
Kathleen Norris
The Way to Rainy Mountain	177	(4)
N. Scott Momaday
Club Denali	181	(12)
Jon Krakauer
The Temple of Hygiene	193	(5)
Charlotte Gray
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China	198	(8)
Fred Strebeigh
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America	206	(12)
David Guterson
HUMAN NATURE
Thinking as a Hobby	218	(5)
William Golding
The Eureka Phenomenon	223	(9)
Isaac Asimov
The Reach of Imagination	232	(8)
Jacob Bronowski
Homo Virtualis	240	(10)
Sven Birkerts
Observation	250	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
Being a Man	251	(2)
Paul Theroux
Looking at Women	253	(10)
Scott Russell Sanders
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide	263	(3)
Anna Quindlen
What Is a Homosexual?	266	(4)
Andrew Sullivan
A Bachelor's Complain of the Behaviour of Married People	270	(5)
Charles Lamb
Gun Crazy	275	(3)
Dorothy Allison
The Sports Taboo	278	(8)
Malcom Gladwell
On the Fear of Death	286	(6)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our Allotted Lifetimes	292	(5)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Strangled Heart	297	(7)
Sherwin B. Nuland
CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Is America Falling Apart?	304	(6)
Anthony Burgess
The Contagion of Innocence	310	(8)
Pico Iyer
Hunger	318	(4)
Maggie Helwig
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!	322	(6)
John McMurtry
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	328	(6)
Jessica Mitford
In the Kitchen	334	(6)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Light-bulb Jokes: Charting an Era	340	(3)
Daniel Harris
On Noise	343	(4)
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Alice Tax	347	(2)
Calvin Trillin
In Harness: The Male Condition	349	(5)
Herb Goldberg
Motherhood: Who Needs It?	354	(9)
Betty Rollin
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life	363	(5)
Gloria Steinem
Not in My Backyard	368	(7)
Vanessa Ochs
Stranger in the Village	375	(9)
James Baldwin
Black Men and Public Space	384	(3)
Brent Staples
The Recoloring of Campus Life	387	(11)
Shelby Steele
Who Shot Johnny?	398	(4)
Debra Dickerson
PROSE FORMS: OP-EDS	402	(346)
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns	404	(1)
Molly Ivins
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's	405	(3)
Brent Staples
Portrait of the Artist as a Focus Group	408	(2)
Michiko Kakutani
Evan's Two Moms	410	(2)
Anna Quindlen
American Fat	412	(3)
Russell Baker
Physician-Assisted Suicide	414	(1)
Last Rights	415	(2)
Michael J. Sandel
Feed the Face	417	(3)
Michael Walzer
A Crime of Compassion	420	(3)
Barbara Huttmann
EDUCATION
Clamorous to Learn	423	(5)
Eudora Welty
Learning to Read	428	(4)
Frederick Douglass
Books Oft Have Such a Charm	432	(4)
William J. Scheick
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading	436	(8)
John Holt
From the Best of Japanese Families	444	(9)
Cathy Davidson
America Skips School	453	(10)
Benjamin R. Barber
College Is a Waste of Time and Money	463	(8)
Caroline Bird
University Days	471	(4)
James Thurber
College Pressures	475	(7)
William Zinsser
Taking Women Students Seriously	482	(6)
Adrienne Rich
To Be a Woman and a Scholar	488	(6)
Dorothy Gies McGuigan
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay	494	(11)
Wayne C. Booth
Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational Epistemology	505	(10)
William G. Perry Jr.
The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline	515	(10)
Alfred North Whitehead
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
``Mommy, What Does `Nigger' Mean?''	525	(2)
Gloria Naylor
Tongue-Tied	527	(4)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Aria	531	(6)
Richard Rodriguez
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	537	(6)
Gloria Anzaldua
Playing the Dozens	543	(2)
John Tierney
Conversational Styles	545	(5)
Deborah Tannen
Who's in Charge of the English Language?	550	(6)
Casey Miller
Kate Swift
The Death of the Profane: A Commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing	556	(6)
Patricia J. Williams
How to Write a Letter Postcards	562	(4)
Garrison Keillor
Notes on Punctuation	566	(2)
Lewis Thomas
The Nature of Symbolic Language	568	(7)
Erich Fromm
Politics and the English Language	575	(10)
George Orwell
AN ALBUM OF STYLES
Of Youth and Age	585	(1)
Francis Bacon
No Man Is an Island	586	(1)
John Donne
The Pyramids	587	(1)
Samuel Johnson
The Watch and the Watch-maker	588	(1)
Adam Smith
Knowledge and Virtue	589	(1)
John Henry Newman
The Gettysburg Address	589	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
from A Farewell to Arms	590	(1)
Ernest Hemingway
What the Novelist Gives Us	590	(2)
Virginia Woolf
Progress and Change	592	(1)
E.B. White
Nobel Prize Award Speech	592	(1)
William Faulkner
A Dog's Eye View of Man	593	(1)
James Thurber
Beer Can	594	(1)
John Updike
The Rivermen	595	(1)
Joseph Mitchell
The Ugly Tourist	595	(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Tides	598	(7)
Rachel Carson
Spring	605	(8)
Gretel Ehrlich
The Serpents of Paradise	613	(5)
Edward Abbey
Very Like a Whale	618	(4)
Robert Finch
Spineless Wonders: Leapers	622	(8)
Richard Conniff
The Spider and the Wasp	630	(4)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
The Abstractions of Beasts	634	(7)
Carl Sagan
Letter to President Pierce, 1855	641	(1)
Chief Seattle
Forever Virgin: The American View of America	642	(9)
Noel Perrin
The Trouble with Wilderness	651	(4)
William Cronon
The Most Dangerous predator	655	(8)
Joseph Wood Krutch
The Clan of One-Breasted Women	663	(7)
Terry Tempest Williams
ETHICS
Letter to His Son	670	(3)
Lord Chesterfield
Advice to Youth	673	(3)
Samuel L. Clemens
What You See Is the Real You	676	(1)
Willard Gaylin
In Defense of Prejudice	677	(9)
Jonathan Rauch
Purloined Letters	686	(8)
James R. Kincaid
The Case for Torture	694	(2)
Michael Levin
The Case for Animal Rights	696	(11)
Tom Regan
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research	707	(9)
Carl Cohen
The Media and the Ethics of Cloning	716	(4)
Leigh Turner
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story	720	(7)
Sallie Tisdale
The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS	727	(3)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Shatterer of Worlds	730	(5)
Kildare Dobbs
Thank God for the Atom Bomb	735	(13)
Paul Fussell
PROSE FORMS: APOTHEGMS	748	(331)
from The Devil's Dictionary	751	(2)
Ambrose Bierce
Proverbs of Hell	753	(2)
William Blake
from City Aphorisms	755	(1)
Mason Cooley
from Poor Richard's Almanack	756	(2)
Benjamin Franklin
from Maxims	758	(4)
La Rochefoucauld
HISTORY
The Battle of the Ants	762	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
``This Is the End of the World'': The Black Death	765	(11)
Barbara Tuchman
Cherokee Memorials	776	(3)
Death of Abraham Lincoln	779	(7)
Walt Whitman
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars	786	(15)
H. Bruce Franklin
Denmark and the Jews	801	(4)
Hannah Arendt
The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi	805	(10)
Amitav Ghosh
The Tyranny of the Clock	815	(4)
George Woodcock
Rewriting American History	819	(7)
Frances FitzGerald
The Historian and His Facts	826	(16)
Edward Hallett Carr
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Shooting an Elephant	842	(6)
George Orwell
A Modest Proposal	848	(7)
Jonathan Swift
Lotteryville, USA	855	(8)
Kim Phillips-Fein
The Morals of the Prince	863	(7)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence	870	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence	874	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	877	(2)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Second Inaugural Address	879	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy	880	(2)
Carl Becker
Democracy	882	(1)
E.B. White
The Tyranny of the Majority	883	(4)
Lani Guinier
Letter from Birmingham Jail	887	(14)
Martin Luther King Jr.
SCIENCE
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning	901	(4)
Jacob Bronowski
The Route to Normal Science	905	(8)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicides A Tale of Two Cities	913	(14)
John Henry Sloan
Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses	927	(15)
Henry Wechsler
Andrea Davenport
George Dowdall
Barbara Moeykens
Sonia Castillo
Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse	942	(4)
Henry Wechsler
Charles Deutsch
George Dowdall
Why the Reckless Survive	946	(9)
Melvin Konner
The Light of Common Day	955	(7)
Arthur C. Clarke
Little Things Can Mean a Lot	962	(6)
Henry Petroski
Virtual Students, Digital Classroom	968	(7)
Neil Postman
Krakatau	975	(7)
Edward O. Wilson
Darwin's Middle Road	982	(7)
Stephen Jay Gould
Women in Science: A Social Analysis	989	(9)
Evelyn Fox Keller
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
One Writer's Beginnings	998	(6)
Endora Welty
Good Readers and Good Writers	1004	(5)
Vladimir Nabokov
Northeast Direct	1009	(3)
Dagoberto Gilb
The Motive for Metaphor	1012	(9)
Northrop Frye
Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue	1021	(8)
Robert Frost
Does a Literary Canon Matter?	1029	(7)
Katha Pollitt
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision	1036	(13)
Adrienne Rich
In Search of a Room of One's Own	1049	(10)
Virginia Woolf
A Century of Cinema	1059	(5)
Susan Sontag
Going to the Movies	1064	(3)
Susan Allen Toth
The Tyranny of the Visual	1067	(7)
Michael J. Arlen
How We Listen	1074	(5)
Aaron Copland
PROSE FORMS: PARABLES	1079	(98)
The Frogs Desiring a King	1081	(1)
Aesop
The Allegory of the Cave	1081	(4)
Plato
Parables of the Kingdom	1085	(3)
Jesus
Zen Parables	1088	(1)
The Spider and the Bee	1089	(2)
Jonathan Swift
The War Prayer	1091	(3)
Samuel L. Clemens
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Salvation	1094	(2)
Langston Hughes
First Communion	1096	(13)
Edward Rivera
Genesis, Chapter 22---A Respectful Dissent	1109	(2)
Mordecai Rosenfeld
The Owl Who Was God	1111	(1)
James Thurber
The Gods Are Anxious	1112	(2)
Louis Menand
Mythology	1114	(5)
Robert Graves
The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity	1119	(13)
Martha Nussbaum
The Riddle of Inequality	1132	(6)
Paul Tillich
The Death of the Moth	1138	(2)
Virginia Woolf
Sight into Insight	1140	(11)
Annie Dillard
Brightness Visible	1151	(8)
Edward Hoagland
The Mystery of Zen	1159	(9)
Gilbert Highet
Existentialism	1168	(9)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Authors	1177	(27)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1204	(7)
Index	1211